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Feb 7, 2020Green Day’s 13th studio album set sees them step outside of their comfort zone, experimenting with a range of new sounds and styles. However, this leads to mixed results.
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Feb 7, 2020It's clear what they've wanted to do, and in some aspects have nailed it head-on, but to execute this properly, there needs to be more focus on wrapping that pure-as-fuck punk heart that beats in their chests in something more than a cartoon unicorn.
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Feb 6, 2020Granted, it doesn’t always quite connect, and it probably won’t enter the Green Day canon, but it’s a bit of fun all the same.
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Feb 18, 2020Certain songs try to recapture their old glory, while others feel like an embarrassing pop ploy—but the most consistent feeling is pure disappointment. Even when Green Day is supposedly having fun here, they sound tired and overworked at best.
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Feb 6, 2020It's another sequence full of common tropes and techniques (to the point of plagiarism in some cases), and at only 26 minutes in length, it rushes by without leaving much of an impression.
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Feb 4, 2020A derivative party foul, a spirited genre game that plays like a copy of a copy. [Feb 2020, p.104]
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Feb 10, 2020Father of All... is fundamentally toothless and lacking in wit, originality, and invention. Armstrong decries "fakes" across this album without once acknowledging the irony that these songs represent exactly the sort of corporate rock he is supposedly standing against. Of course, Green Day remains a competent band to the point that this slickly produced record is not an all-out disaster. But it is certainly not worth remembering.
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Feb 6, 2020Glam, anthemic and messy Father of All… may be, but “inspired” and “baddest” it is not.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 79 out of 217
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Mixed: 38 out of 217
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Negative: 100 out of 217
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Feb 7, 2020It's a really meh album. I do understand that they want to change up their sound, but it's still lacking.
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